Study: Media accepted Obama version of Benghazi attack

Characterized as spontaneous protest 4 times more often than terrorist attack

Published: 11/03/2012 at 12:45 AM

(Washington Times) The press overwhelmingly bought into the Obama administration’s version of events on the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, according to a new study Friday by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which tracks news reports.

CMPA analysts said press accounts framed the attack as a spontaneous protest — the Obama administration’s initial version of events — four times more often than they called it a terrorist assault, which was what Republicans and even some Democrats identified it as in the days right after Sept. 11.